But it should be emphasized that the conduct that the electorate will reward in the politician is not likely to be identical with that which would please the professor of political science.

And nor, Gordon would agree, would the professor of economics – or of sociology, or of psychology, or of medicine, or of law, or of race studies, or of you-name-the-subject – be pleased in general. Government officials chiefly act to win, maintain, and augment their power. While they routinely pronounce grandly, they almost always act venally.